Dear Diary: In 1972 baseball broadcaster Harry Caray spent 288 consecutive days in bars. He chronicled them all in his journal, obtained by a reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times. “These guys did nothing but go out and have a few cocktails," said Jimmy Rittenberg, who owned Faces, which Caray visited 14 times in 1972. "I don't know how they did it. They were 20, 30 years older than me and I couldn't keep up with them." [CST]

How do you feel about your food, an animated interpretation: Check out this brilliant video interpretation of a series of interviews exploring how people feel about their food. It features talking hamburgers, pretzels, and strawberries. Basically: here is a video of food talking about itself. [Vimeo]

Should sugar be regulated as a drug? One researcher makes the argument: "The dose determines the poison. The data says that the dose on average that is safe is six to nine teaspoons of added sugar per day. Currently, Americans are at 22 teaspoons of added sugar per day. That excess is driving obesity, diabetes, lipid problems, heart disease, cancer, dementia, fatty liver disease -- virtually every chronic metabolic disease that you can think of is being driven by this excess of sugar." [Vox]